Effort continues to fix South Dakota elections that don't need fixing

In the past few years, a certain segment of South Dakota society has become adamant about making specific improvements in the way we live.

Is this a citizen quest for more education funding? No. Is it a movement to put often overlooked Native American issues at the front of the state agenda? No. Is it a grassroots effort to revamp the way South Dakotans pay taxes? No.

This effort is aimed at cleaning up the state’s elections. “Hold on,” you might say. “I didn’t know there was a problem with our elections.” Well, there isn’t. But that isn’t keeping the issue from being front and center at the Legislature and in county commission meetings across the state.

In the last legislative session there were more than 50 election-related bills introduced. About half of those had to deal with “election integrity” in the areas of voter qualification, technology and security. That’s a great deal of attention being paid to a part of government that, in the past, has been noted for working just fine.




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